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America was ecstatic last week over the last episode of AMC's "Mad Men" television show. Several newspapers, magazines, social media, radio and television shows were raving about Don Draper and the supporting cast. People were making comments such as, "Oh, the good old days," or, "I wish we could go back to more simpler times." For minorities, the '60s were not the "good old days" or "simpler time." From our standpoint, we hear: Return to the Jim Crow days. Where was the raving for the HBO series, "The Wire?" Created by David Simon, it chronologies the pulse of the city of Baltimore. I recommend watching "The...

An attacker once tied to Islamic extremists crashed a vehicle into an Air Products factory in France on Friday and left the severed head of his employer hanging at the plant entrance alongside banners displaying Arabic inscriptions.The vehicle crash...

George Kounoupis' Greek law degree hangs in one corner of his office on East Broad Street in Bethlehem; a Spartan warrior's helmet, a symbol of his Greek birthplace, rests on a table in another corner.
Known in the Lehigh Valley for a thriving law...

— Allentown Mayor and U.S. Senate candidate Ed Pawlowski says he has concerns about the potential effects of a trade agreement the Obama administration is crafting with Japan and 10 other Pacific countries.
Pennsylvania workers would find themselves...

Pennsylvania has a baby problem: We're not making enough of them.
The state's birthrate was 11 for every 1,000 residents in 2013, according to a report published this year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
To put that in perspective,...

We hear all the time how one world leader is playing strategic chess, and others are playing checkers. However, in today's world, the game isn't chess anymore. It's the game of Risk.
Chess is played by two players (powers), one against the other on a...

The world should be watching the crisis in Ukraine, Yuriy Sergeyev, Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations, told a lunch-time audience Friday in downtown Allentown. It isn't a national or regional issue, he stressed to a packed house at the...

As you may have heard, those smart people at 3G Capital have this really brilliant idea for jump-starting growth at Kraft, part of what henceforth will be called Kraft Heinz (but should be called Heinzkraft): globalization! Kraft gets 98 percent of its...

Daesh, the term most Arabs use to describe what is inaccurately termed Islamic State, is a derogatory term for the terrorist organization, which in no way is Islamic and even less a state. The use of Daesh omits Islam from the description and, in Arab,...

The honey from local beekeepers Jason and Eunjin Newkirk's hives doesn't look, taste or feel like the golden liquid that comes in a mass-produced plastic bottle at the grocery store.The U.S. government uses no standard definition for honey, leaving the...

ISTANBUL — A Turkish court issued an arrest warrant on Friday for Monroe County-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen whose followers are accused by President Tayyip Erdogan of leading a terrorist plot to seize power, according to media.The warrant takes...

If someone had told you last fall that Russia would soon invade a neighboring country, annex part of it and occupy another chunk, you might have been skeptical.
You certainly would not have believed that, in the face of this shattering of the accepted...

The Scots voted 55.3 percent against independence. But to get that vote, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron promised the Scots more autonomy. He also pledged to maintain the Barnett formula, which awards a higher share of U.K. government spending to...

The Lenin statue in Kharkiv was the biggest in Ukraine. Perhaps that's why it lasted longer than most, escaping what has been called the Leninfall — the mass tear down of monuments to the Soviet Union's founder that Ukraine's Euromaidan revolution set off...

The Middle East has once again boiled over into a chaotic and dangerous caldron that threatens the Western world with a new existential threat — this time from the Islamic State or ISIS. A product of deep-seated alienation and anger among the Sunni...

Before the world witnessed the full force of the Islamic State's brutality in the video this past week showing American journalist James Foley's murder, a different video revealed another kind of destruction the terrorist group is bent on inflicting.
A...

MOSCOW — Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programs, has been given a three-year residence permit by Russia, his Russian lawyer said on...

BRUSSELS —The United States joined NATO and Poland Wednesday in warning about the risk of Russia sending troops into Ukraine after saying President Vladimir Putin massed soldiers on his country's western border. Russia said the reports of its military...

Israelis and Palestinians are still burying their loved ones as Gaza's third war in six years continues. Since July 8, when this war began, more than 1,600 Palestinian and 65 Israeli lives have been sacrificed. Many in the world are heartbroken in the...

"Weltmeister Deutschland! Jaaaaaaaaaa!" reads the celebratory front page of Germany's most popular daily newspaper, Bild. Germany won soccer's World Cup and the victory is a symbol of the country's resurgence.
Last time Germany won the World...